The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-11-03
NEWS IN GENERAL.
lQMESIlN


At funeral near Sycomare, o., the team
attached to the hearse ran away, and the
vehicle was reduced almost to kindling wood.
The coffin was dashed to the ground, the lid
torn off and the corpse rolled into ditch by
the roadside. Other teams took fright and a
general panic ensued. Women tainted men
Jumped from the carriages, wagons were
overturned, horses became entangled in the
general wreck, and several persons were
more or less seriously injured,
A desperate break for liberty was made at
the penitentiary in Yuma, Aris. Superin-
tendent Gales was seized by a convict and
marched out, followed by seven other con.
victs. The superintendent called upon the
guards to shoot the convict holding him.
Riggs. life convict killed the convict who
held and was stabbing the superintendent.
and two seriously wounded. Supt. Gales
was badly wounded. There were no escapes,
James A. Bailey has purchased the entire
interest of James l.. Hutchinson, #. w. Cole
and J. E. Cooper in the Barnum and London
circus, menagerie, hippodrome, etc. The
firm will now be Barnum & Bailey alone.
No movement of equal magnitude has ever
before been accomplished in the circus bust
ness.
Typographical Union No. 6 Of New
York City has voted to leave the
compositors' strike to the strike commit
tee This is said to mean that the strike
will be declared off, as the committee con-
slider a further struggle useless.
James e Hamilton, mail carrier between
Miami and Lake Worth, Fla, on the south
Atlantic coast, was attacked by q number Of
sharks, and, although he fought them with
his oars as long as possible, they finally cap
sized his boat and literally devoured him
alive.
The Judge of Starr county, Tex, states
that that county is invaded by bands of BAN
dts and cut-throats, and that the local OH.
atrocious crimes are mentioned. Gov. Ross
replies: "Rest assured that the full power Of
the state government will be exercised in
your behalf" =
Additional details of deprcdations commit
ted by the Apache Indians near Holbrook
comes from Albuquerque, N. NJ. Nearly
every ranchman, has suffered more or less
the loss of cattle from these marauding
bands. The ranchers are much incensed,
and demand that the obnoxious redskins DO
removed to Florida.
systematic robbing of freight cars on the
Southern Pacific railroad has been going on
for six months between Tucson and Ell Paso.
A clerk in the subtreasury at Washington
has fed to Canada with $4,000. This is the
first defalcation from the treasury for many
years.
Maggie Arlington, the actress, is dead.
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, favors the
ownership of telegraphs by the government.
Two engines and many cars were smashed
and two men killed in the Nickel Plate road
accident on the Goth.
The West Division railway in Chicago has
changed hands.
Peaceful Indians have been driven from
their homes by white men, in order that the
latter may secure the land.
A Baltimore orator argues with DR..
McGlynn that prohibition would abolish
poverty sooner than land tax.
Southern Illinois coal miners demand an
increase from As to 61 1-2 cents ton,
Meeting of college undergraduates has been
held in New York to take steps for the for
nation college Christian union.
Mrs. James O'Brien and her four young
children persisted at Leadville, Col, by the
burning Of their house.